Paula Jacobs

Acting

Born January 1, 1932, Liverpool, England, UK

Paula Elsa Jacobs (1932 – 26 June 2021) was a British actress whose television and film career spanned four decades. Born in Liverpool in 1932 into a Jewish family, her father was J.P. Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer. Jacobs made her first television appearance in Z-Cars in 1962, going on to play roles in Softly, Softly: Task Force (1972–1975), Shoestring (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980), Mapp & Lucia (1985), Mrs Biggs in Porterhouse Blue (1987), The New Statesman (1989), Bergerac (1990), Maud Wilberforce in Jeeves and Wooster (1990), Brookside (1992), French and Saunders (1993), Coronation Street (1994), Casualty (1989–1995), Drop the Dead Donkey (1994–1998), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Midsomer Murders (2002), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2004) and Doctors (2008).

Filmography

• Attachments — Rosa
• Belfry Witches
• CI5: The New Professionals
• Midsomer Murders — Mrs. Bosworth
• 1996Crossing the Floor — Madam Speaker
• 1993The Remains of the Day — Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
• 1992Duel of Hearts — Landlady
• 1990Can You Hear Me Thinking? — Rosemary
• Jeeves and Wooster — Maud Wilberforce
• Birds of a Feather — Mrs. Belloc
• May to December — Doreen
• 1988Dead Lucky — Mrs Gogarty
• 1988We Think the World of You — Deirdre
• The New Statesman — Labour MP
• Casualty — Iris Thompson
• Albion Market
• Mapp & Lucia — Cook
• 1985Wings of Death — Mum / Landlady
• Scully — Florrie
• 1984She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas — Doreen
• 1983To the Lighthouse — Mildred
• 1981An American Werewolf in London — Mrs. Kessler
• Bergerac — Mrs. Frith
• Hammer House of Horror — Joyce
• 1979Birth of the Beatles — Mrs Flemming
• Shoestring — Manageress
• Theatre 625 — Victim